News Harvest is an OS/2 Presentation Manger and Windows 95/98/NT application for the automatic retrieval of Usenet News binary articles.

The main design impetus was to create a Fire and Forget utility that would process any number of groups over any number of servers with no user-intervention. This is indeed the case -- once News Harvest is configured with host and group information, a single command will run the process to completion.

A binary news harvester with such simplicity of operation is often low on features. This is not the case with News Harvest:

• Multi-threaded, fully 32-bit executable.
• Completly automatic operation.
• Rebuilds multipart articles.
• Remembers past downloads.
• Utilises SPAM-keyword filtering.
• Fully configurable output paths.
• Handles abrupt disconnections (re-connects).
• Updates Netscape Navigator news file (optional).
• Very low, average CPU load.
• Comprehensive logging information (optional).
• WPS Drag and Drop (for OS/2).
• Output displayed in ordered and intuitive manner.
• On-the-fly changing of configuration.
• Complete online manual.